The Acacia Strain launches Tas TV

Massachusetts-based THE ACACIA STRAIN has posted the first of five mini-skits on their official MySpace, www.myspace.com/theacaciastrain. Every Monday at 10AM fans can visit the site and check out a new mini-skit starring THE ACACIA STRAIN. Episodes will be posted every week until the August 19 release of Continent. The first episode can be viewed here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=38925598.

The mini-skits were produced by Manny Santiago of Gamma Ray Films.

Continent, THE ACACIA STRAIN’S fourth studio album, is due out on August 19th on Prosthetic Records. Fans can get a little taste of what Continent has in store for them by checking out the album’s first single, “Skynet”, on the band’s official MySpace page. (www.myspace.com/theacaciastrain). Eager fans can preorder the new disk in five different, exclusive packages online at www.prostheticrecords.com/TASsplash.html. THE ACACIA STRAIN called on Paul Romano (Mastodon, Chiodos, Trivium) for the album art. For more of Paul Romano’s work, visit http://www.workhardened.com/.

Be sure to check out www.myspace.com/theacaciastrain every week leading up to the release of Continent for a new episode of “TAS TV.” THE ACACIA STRAIN will be back in the US to play four record release shows at the end of August. Dates are listed below.


THE ACACIA STRAIN European Tour with Annotations of An Autopsy, Knights of the Abyss
7/23 Nottingham, UK – Junction 7
7/24 Glasgow, UK – Ivory Blacks
7/25 Sheffield, UK – Corporation
7/26 Stoke-On-Trent, UK – The Sugarmill
7/27 Norwich, UK – The Queen Charlotte
7/28 London, UK – Underworld
7/29 Manchester, UK – Music Box
7/30 Plymouth, UK – The White Rabbit
7/31 Swindon, UK – The Furnace
8/01 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
8/02 Bochum, Germany - Matrix
8/03 Karlsruhe, Germany – Stadtmitte

THE ACACIA STRAIN Record Release Shows (ticket links included):
8/21 Portland, ME – The Station -http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010040EF7D602F12?artistid=1238954&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=200


8/22 Providence, RI – The Living Room -http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?performance_id=813312&cobrand=lupos


8/23 Poughkeepsie, NY – The Loft -http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=288197


8/24 Holyoke, MA - The Waterfront